Mobster suffers heart attacks

News-Times, The (Danbury, CT)

Published
1:00 am EDT, Thursday, June 8, 2006

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Anthony "The Genius" Megale, the reputed underboss of the Gambino crime family, suffered two heart attacks in April and has asked for time to recover before being sentenced for extortion in New York.

Megale, a Stamford sanitation worker, is serving more than seven years in prison for a Connecticut racketeering conspiracy and was scheduled to be sentenced in New York next month in an unrelated case.

Megale, who prosecutors say became the highest-ranking mobster in Connecticut history, underwent two surgeries following heart attacks in April, lawyers said in documents filed in Manhattan federal court this week.